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National Horizons Centre (Biosciences)

National Horizons Centre (Biosciences)

The National Horizons Centre (NHC) is a £22.3m centre of excellence for the bioscience industries. With research, partnerships and training at its core, the NHC brings together industry, academia, talent and world-class facilities to create real-world impact.

The centre is focussed around three core specialisms:

  • Disease-specific research
  • Biomanufacturing
  • Digital analytics and machine learning

Through fundamental and applied research, the NHC prides itself on discovering diseases earlier, developing novel treatments and delivering life-saving medicines quicker, safer and more affordably.

It works with a range of public and private sector partners to accelerate innovation, including public health organisations, academic institutions, business start-ups, SMEs and multinationals.

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Research centre leads

Professor Vikki Rand

Professor Vikki Rand

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News

Dr Caroline Orr . Link to Prestigious science festival hears from Teesside academic.

Prestigious science festival hears from Teesside academic

A Teesside University academic has provided an online lecture as part of a science festival organised by one of the world’s most prestigious science academies.

Research team. Link to A complex crab invasion carries parasites to Argentina.

A complex crab invasion carries parasites to Argentina

Marine biologists and pathologists at IBIOMAR, (CCT CONICET CENPAT) Argentina, and Teesside University have discovered a new parasite that is infecting crab species off the coast of Argentina and which could have serious consequences for the vital fishing industry in the country.

Dr Maria Juanes, biomedical sciences lecturer, School of Health & Life Sciences. Link to Teesside University academic wins cancer research funding boost.

Teesside University academic wins cancer research funding boost

Vital work into cancer research by a Teesside University academic has received a welcome boost in the form of almost £100,000 funding.

Other articles

Do genetic differences make some people more susceptible to COVID-19?

Coronavirus affects people differently – some infected develop life-threatening disease, while others remain asymptomatic. And a year aftere COVID-19 emerged, it’s still unclear why.

Climate change: 40°C summer temperatures could be common in UK by 2100

A stark warning about the kind of summer that could become routine in the UK by the end of this century has been issued in a new study by the country’s Met Office.

Scans reveal new details of how Egyptian pharaoh met a violent death

There’s something about mummies that always fascinates people. We see this from the attention given to mummies in museum exhibitions and in their frequent appearance in books, films and games.

How bison, moose and caribou stepped in to do the cleaning work of extinct mammoths

The extinction of one species can create ripples that transform an ecosystem. That’s particularly true for so-called “ecosystem engineer” species.